PSARC/2008/494 GNU emacs

[Bart Smaalders]

Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> On a separate note, its unclear to me whether SUNWemacs-nox is a sound 
> approach for Solaris.
> 
> It presents potential difficulties, as there is no precedent (that I'm 
> aware of) for having the same binary program (/usr/bin/emacs) 
> distributed by different packages.  It potentially raises challenges for 
> patching, and other sustaining efforts, and I'm not entirely certain 
> that this has been thoroughly considered yet.
>


That's not what the proposal specified:

> 
> 
> The /usr/bin/emacs command is a shell script, delivered by
> SUNWemacs. This script execs the "best" version of emacs
> installed on the system, where best is defined as:
> 
>     1) If /usr/bin/emacs-x exists, exec it.
>     2) If /usr/bin/emacs-nox exists, exec it.
>     3) If no emacs executables are present, issue
>        an error to that effect and exit(1).

- Bart

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